Retro: Mobile/Pensacola Wednesday, October 2, 1963

[Mario500]

From the Mobile Press-Register:

WALA-TV Channel 10 (NBC)

7:00 AM: Today: Hugh Downs is host
9:00 AM: Say When
9:30 AM: Play Your Hunch: Merv Griffin (Color)
10:00 AM: Concentration: Hugh Downs emcee
10:30 AM: Series Spotlight
11:45 AM: World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees
2:00 PM: Loretta Young: Network rerun. Drama. “Double Trouble”.
2:30 PM: You Don’t Say: Panel and audience participation show
3:00 PM: Match Game: Quiz show
3:30 PM: Make Room for Daddy: Network rerun. Comedy with Danny Thomas
4:00 PM: Adventure Time: For children
4:30 PM: Riverboat: “The Long Trail”
5:30 PM: Huntley and Brinkley: News
6:00 PM: Tri-State News (Local)
6:30 PM: Virginian: “No Tears for Savannah”. A former love of the Virginian is framed on a murder charge (Color).
8:00: Espionage: “A Covenant with Death”. Two Norwegian resistance workers are tried for murder of refugees
9:00 PM: Eleventh Hour: “Cold Hands, Warm Heart”. A story of infidelity.
10:00 PM: Wanted—Dead or Alive: “Black Belt”. Rerun.
10:30 PM: M-Squad: Rerun
11:00 PM: Tonight: Johnny Carson (Color)

WKRG-TV Channel 5 (CBS)

6:30 AM: Sunrise Semester
7:00 AM: Alabama Jubilee: Don Davis. Variety. (Local)
8:00 AM: Captain Kangaroo: Cartoons and children’s variety
9:00 AM: My Little Margie: Rerun
9:30 AM: I Love Lucy: Comedy. Rerun.
10:00 AM: The Real McCoys: Network rerun
10:30 AM: Pete and Gladys: Network rerun
11:00 AM: Love of Life: Serial
11:30 AM: Search for Tomorrow: Serial
11:45 AM: Guiding Light: Serial
12:00 PM: Woman’s World (Local)
12:30 PM: As the World Turns: Serial
1:00 PM: Password
1:30 PM: Houseparty: Art Linkletter
2:00 PM: To Tell the Truth: Quiz
2:30 PM: Edge of Night
3:00 PM: Secret Storm: Serial
3:30 PM: Divorce Court: “Kennedy vs. Kennedy”. In order to block her motion for a final divorce decree, a husband claims that he and his wife had a brief reconciliation.
4:30 PM: Popeye Cartoon Theater (Local)
5:00 PM: Sea Hunt: Rerun
5:30 PM: First Edition (Local)
5:45 PM: CBS Evening News: Walter Cronkite
6:15 PM: News, Sports, Weather
6:30 PM: The Great Adventure: Stories of high adventures based on facts are yours, in “The Hunley”. A suspenseful story of our first submarine.
7:30 PM: Glynis: Glynis becomes a taxi dancer in order to acquire background for a murder story, she finds herself the target of a real killer.
8:00 PM: Beverly Hillbillies: Fred Clark returns as Beverly Hill physician Dr. Clyburn and threatens to report Granny to the State Medical Board for her unlicensed practice of mountain medicine.
8:30 PM: Dick Van Dyke: “The Masterpiece”. Bob explains how some people use signals to make silent bids—and winds up with a painting because of his own high-priced gesturing.
9:00 PM: Danny Kaye: Danny’s guests for tonight’s show will be Jose Ferrer and Red Norvo
10:00 PM: Candid Camera
10:15 PM: Stagecoach West: “Dark Return”
10:30 PM: News, Sports, Weather (Local)
10:35 PM: New Breed. “Judgment at San Belito”

WEAR-TV Channel 3 (ABC)

9:30 AM: Love That Bob: Rerun
10:00 AM: Price is Right: Bill Cullen
10:45 AM: Seven Keys: Quiz show
11:00 AM: Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 AM: Father Knows Best: “New Girl in School”
12:00 PM: General Hospital
12:30 PM: 12:30 PM Report: News
12:45 PM: Gulf Coast Caravan (Local)
1:30 PM: Day In Court: Actual court room trials
1:55 PM: Liza Howard: News
2:00 PM: Queen for a Day
2:30 PM: Who Do You Trust?
3:00 PM: Trailmaster
4:00 PM: Lone Ranger: Rerun. Western movie.
4:30 PM: Cheyenne: “The Iron Trail”
5:30 PM: News: Ron Cochran
5:45 PM: Jack Kenney: News
6:00 PM: Bronco
7:00 PM: Dixie Partners
7:30 PM: Price is Right
8:00 PM: Ben Casey: “Allie”. Negro baseball star who loses an eye during a game has his spirit broken by embittered eye surgeon.
9:00 PM: Channing: “An Obelisk for Benny”. Wild freshmen is paid companion to a fellow student, a polio victim and their lives become entwined in a poignant fashion.
10:00 PM: News: Jack Kenny
11:15 PM: Dragnet: Rerun

 

[bpatrick]

I see WKRG was playing fast and loose with the
CBS schedule even then. "The Great Adventure"
aired in pattern Fridays at 6:30 (CT); "Candid
Camera" aired Sundays at 9 (CT). I don't know
what aired on Ch. 5 on either night, but I know
that "CBS Reports" aired in pattern Wednesdays
at 6:30, and that it had its share of pre-emptions
(in Raleigh, WTVD, then affiliated with both CBS
and NBC, opted for "The Virginian").

Dick Van Dyke's character's first name was "Rob,"
not "Bob." He was Rob Petrie.

For WEAR, you show news at 10 PM, and the next program
at 11:15. Did you mean 10:15, or was there something
else at 10:15? Also, did WALA join Johnny Carson in
progress, or was the show tape-delayed thirty minutes?
(I recall only Minneapolis and Birmingham being able to
delay the show, and that was much later.)

 

[Mario500]

Dick Van Dyke's character's first name was "Rob,"
not "Bob." He was Rob Petrie.

For WEAR, you show news at 10 PM, and the next program
at 11:15. Did you mean 10:15, or was there something
else at 10:15? Also, did WALA join Johnny Carson in
progress, or was the show tape-delayed thirty minutes?
(I recall only Minneapolis and Birmingham being able to
delay the show, and that was much later.)

I rechecked my copy of the listings and that's how the programs on WEAR-TV were listed on that date. "Bob", like "Rob", is another nickname for people named "Robert".

 

[bpatrick]

I'm well aware that "Bob" is a nickname for "Robert,"
since it happens to be my name. But Van Dyke's
character was called "Rob"; remember Mary Tyler
Moore's tearful "Ohhhh, Rooooob!"

I still think something's missing on Ch. 3's schedule;
I never heard of a 75-minute late newscast then or
now. I blame the newspaper and/or the station, not
you.